Michael Garfield — Conversations with the Future | Ideamarket Podcast
1h 49m | Sep 20, 2021Surfer of the liminal, Michael Garfield is helping to articulate our emergent planetary culture and integrate art, science, and philosophy in a new way suited to our accelerating age. He hosts the Future Fossils podcast, mapping our place in the landscape of deep time, and the Sante Fe Institute's Complexity podcast, as is an artist and musician.
In this episode:
(00:00) — Episode begins
(00:45) — Michael Garfield bootcamp
(04:53) — Time-space synesthesia
(08:54) — Corporatization of the natural
(28:43) — "The incentive structures of society are misaligned with the incentives of individuals."
(38:28) — Scaling laws of life and society
(46:12) — Be open to the unknown or perish
(1:04:35) — Tokenization of everything and the inability to quantify value
(1:12:06) — "Story is the active ingredient in epistemology"
(1:24:10)— "The truth owes you jack"
(1:29:10) — The Century of the Self & Values > Incentives
(1:43:20) — "I'll probably ruin your entire company," the need for dissenters
EPISODE LINKS:
Michael's Links:
- Michael on Twitter
- Future Fossils Podcast
- Michael's writing
- Michael's Art
- Michael's Santa Fe Institute page
- Santa Fe Institute's COMPLEXITY Podcast
Books:
- Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
- Metaphors We Live By
- Schooling in Capitalist America, Samuel Bowles
- The Moral Economy, Samuel Bowles
- Democracy: The God That Failed
- Joseph Heinrich, The WEIRDest People in The World
Other Links:
- Cory Doctorow: Terra Nullius
- https://www.nextnature.net/
- Long Now Foundation
- Weird Studies Podcast
- On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer
- Will a Complex System be Stable? Robert May
- Complexity Podcast: Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through Biomimicry
- Economics in Nouns and Verbs, W. Brian Arthur
- Daniel Bassett, Networks Thinking Themselves
- Information and Signs the Language of Images
- The coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative, Samuel Bowles
- Terence McKenna on Philip K. Dick
IDEAMARKET LINKS:
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